Typical market inaugurated south of Kut

WASSIT / IraqiNews.com: A typical market has been opened south of Kut City as part of the provincial development projects for the year 2008, a local media director said on Tuesday. “Today, Wassit’s Governor Lateef Hamad al-Tarfa opened a typical market in Sheikh Saad district (50 km south of Kut),” Majid al-Itabi told IraqiNews.com news agency. The market was erected at a cost of 1.867 billion Iraqi dinars, Itabi explained, adding that the completion period of the project was 240 days. The market has 400 stores, he noted. Kut, the capital city of Wassit province, lies 180 km southeast of Baghdad. SS (P) 1